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Hi Stephen...welcome to the Forum

Snap!  here's my two

Good to have you onboard

Cheers,   Trevor

Hi Jacob...welcome to the Forum

It may be a case of having to make up a loom yourself to go into the existing socket.

Trouble is knowing which one goes where!

Hi Matt.....welcome to the Club

Is the battery the original one? may need replacing as lots of residual circuit consumption even when idle

Good to have you onboard

Hi Luke....welcome to the Forum

I would completely agree with Dave and over service the car with regards to fluids and filters and it also gives you a chance to look for potential issues and if anything is degrading between inspections.
It used to be common practice to carry out weekly inspections on cars which ensured the car stayed in tip top condition at all times.....seems like most people don't even check from year to year nowadays 😞

Good to have you onboard

Hi Adam....welcome to the Forum

They look superb products but rather expensive!

Are you looking to predominantly use as a track car or regular road use?

That's fair enough then 🙂

Hi Frank....welcome to the Forum

I see the Merc gets the garage space then 🙂

Good to have you onboard

Hi Glenn....welcome to the Forum

Superb looking Bimmer!

Hi Kieran....welcome to the Club

Replacement of the air bags is a relatively easy job but you will also have to replace the controller which will now be defunct and code in a new one.
Also, some sensors may have to be replaced also.
Technically, everything associated with the SRS including the wiring loom should be replaced following an incident that has led to the Airbags deploying.

Let us know how you get on with it all

Hi Ross.....welcome to the Club

Good to have you onboard

Hi Jacob....welcome to the Forum

Hopefully you can resolve the issue with the Transmission without huge costs....there should be plenty of used gearboxes available for this model

Good to have you onboard

Cheers .   Trevor

I would always ensure that the car is over-serviced to be on the safe side and always using quality parts and fluids

With BMW it seems there are three services (unless things have changed over the years)
Oil Service - which is just that and a checkover
Service I - which is a minor service
Service II - which is a major service

I would double check all service history stamps to check nothing has been missed though and then go for the one you think it best for the car, and your wallet 🙂

Always a good move to remove emission items on the early cars, they never did work properly and were only there for the manufacturers to gain Euro standard emissions (drive-by noise reduction valve on the exhaust is a classic example - replacement exhausts aren't equipped with this component)

I used to work on a lot of American cars from the late 60's and early 70's and they had so much useless junk on them that a 5.7 litre V8 would only produce 210bhp....after we stripped off air injection, early pellet type catalytic converter, restricted inlet manifold, EVAP....and so much more junk to satisfy the Californian emissions rules. After that we were getting a respectable 280bhp output from the engine and the thing would still run incredibly clean on emissions

Hi Daniel....welcome to the Forum

Always nice to see an old school Beemer 

Is it the pedal physically not returning to rest or is the revs that are not returning to idle?

If its just the revs and not a physical problem with the pedal movement then it could be a vacuum leak which is holding the revs up

Peter Parr . any luck with sorting this issue yet?

On 12/21/2019 at 7:03 AM, Greydog said:

Here's to a Very Happy Christmas and a Peaceful and Prosperous New year to everyone

Dave

Thank you Dave for all your regular contributions to the club forums throughout the year and continuing to assist members with their enquiries

Hope you and yours have a wonderful Christmas and New Year

Best Regards
Trevor

I found this link to a useful page showing the gear ratios for BMW diffs

http://www.bokchoys.com/differential/GearRatios.htm

Hope this helps

Hi Joao...welcome to the Club

Hi Paul.....welcome to the Club

Hi Mike....welcome to the Club

Nice are to drive, shame it's not local to me 😞

I would check the cylinder compression as there may be a fault with the valves

Hi....welcome to the Forum

Good to have you onboard

....from a fellow Z3 owner